Almost 20% of public uni students enrolled in 2022 were non-bumi, says Dr Wee

PETALING JAYA: Almost 20% of public university student intakes in 2022 consisted of other races, revealed Ayer Hitam MP Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong (pic).

According to a parliamentary written reply shared by Dr Wee on Facebook today, he revealed that ethnic Malay and bumiputra students made up 81.9% of public university intakes while other races made up 18.1% in 2022.

The reply came from the-then Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin, who said the numbers were based on data collected by the Public University Data Collection System (MyMoheS).

It was in response to Dr Wee who had asked the ministry the current total intake for each public university according to racial percentage, during the Third Meeting of the Second Term of the 15th Parliament session.

The MCA president had also asked the ministry to reveal the five most popular courses among STPM and matriculation candidates when entering public universities.

The ministry revealed that STPM students favoured degrees in entrepreneurship (tourism), business (entrepreneurship engineering), management, education (Malay language) and business (business international).

Matriculation candidates on the other hand preferred degrees in accounting, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, business administration and medicine.